I am recapping the first week of the Shemitah Year again because of the recent development of a Red Heifer being born in Gatesville, TX with a perfect white mark of #7 on his forehead. This birth can NOT be qualified to be part of the Third Temple because the mark is considered to be a “blemish, defect”, but it is still amazing considering being born on the first day of this Shemitah year! Another cow was born in Pennsylvania on September 20, 2014 with a #7 on his head. (Genesis 41, Pharaoh has a dream of 7 cows and then dreams again of 7 cows)

A Red Heifer is significant to the Last Days and the Third Temple because of what God commanded in Numbers 19:1-9, “Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, (2) “This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there isno defectand on which a yoke has never come.” This is the pattern King Solomon used to cleanse the First Temple.

The Bible predicts that the Jewish Temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Ever since the 70 AD destruction of Israel’s second Temple, one major roadblock barring the reconstruction of the Temple is the fact that the Temple Mount area has been defiled with warfare. In order to cleanse the Tribulation Temple Mount for worship the Jews will need the ashes of a pure red heifer. To this date, none have been found.

I would like to highlight the incredible first week of this current Shemitah Year:

Day 1- September 25, US Attorney General Eric Holder resigned.

Day 1 – September 25, Red Heifer was born in Gatesville, TX with a perfect #7 on the forehead. In the Bible, the first mention of 7 is the day of rest, when God finished with His Creation work. The Shemitah Year is a 7th year rest for the land!

Day 1 – September 25, the first case of Ebola was symptomatic

Day 2- September 26, Liberian tourist to American goes to Dallas hospital with Ebola symptoms- sent home with antibiotics

Day 2 – September 26, Moore OK, man beheads woman with a knife

Day 4 – September 28, First case of Ebola in the US reported in Dallas, TX

Day 5 – September 29, PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to General Assembly at United Nations

Day 6 – September 30, Congress grills Secret Service Director, Julia Pierson on security breaches, with a major breach exposed following the hearing

Day 7 – October 1, PM Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Obama in the White House

Day 7 – October 1, Secret Service Director, Julia Pierson resigns following full details of security breaches for the White House and President

Day 7 – October 1, The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 238.19 points, or 1.4%, to 16,804.71. The S&P 500 dropped 26.13 points, or 1.3%, to 1946.16 and the Nasdaq composite skidded 71.30 points, or 1.6%, to 4422.09. October also makes investors uneasy, as it is a month known for major stock market crashes in 1929 and 1987.

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn wrote, “The Shemitah’s openingcan mark the beginning of change and the shifting of momentum. At the same time, if a change or shifting should take place at this point, more often than not it tends to constitute a firstfruit, a foreshadow of what lies ahead, a subtle trace in comparison to what comes at the end. If there is a change at this point, its coming may or may not be noticeable at first. The general pattern is this: As the Shemitah progresses, and particularly, as it nears its end, its intensity increases.” (The Mystery of the Shemitah, Johnathan Cahn, Front Line Books, pg 238)

This current Shemitah Year (7 year land rest of Leviticus 25:4) began last week, September 24 at sundown and will continue until September 13, 2015. The last 2 Shemitah years ( 9/30/2000 – 9/17/2001 and 9/13/2007 – 9/28/2008) on the Hebraic calendar have ended with incredible loss of the stock market value in Wall Street. The last day of the Shemitah Year in 2001 saw a stock market loss of 684 points and the last day of the Shemitah Year in 2008 closed with a 777 point loss. The 2008 loss began the Great Recession and has shook the world’s economies with not one nation left untouched financially .

It looks to me that the Shemitah Year is beginning with a change, shifting and uncovering of things hidden in the darkness. Keep looking up!